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Now you may do it badly, you may do it well, some people like you, some people hate you, all the rest of it – but you have got a real motivating life purpose. [on being Prime Minister

Tony Blair

If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we have to find a way of doing it sustainably.
TONY BLAIR

Business Country Growth
But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.
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Essential People Together
I can only go one way. I’ve not got a reverse gear.
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Gears Reverse Way
Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
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Crime Law Order Party
I may find Saddam Hussein’s regime abhorrent – any normal person would – but the survival of it is in his hands.
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Abhorrent Hand Survival
We fall for… the theories of betrayal very easily, and one of the things that’s always depressed me about the left, ever since I started in politics, is their ability to imbibe the propaganda of the right and regurgitate it to the left.
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Betrayal Fall Propaganda
The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.
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Security Speech Spread
I’m afraid that’s in the nature of modern politics – it’s as much conducted by abuse as argument.
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Abuse Argument Modern
But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order.
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Confidence Fall Key Order
I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.
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Journey Responsibility Thinking
Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.
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History Loss Struggle
One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we’ve seen massive reductions in property.
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Globalization Paradox World
Immigration is good for a country. It brings fresh energy.
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Country Energy Immigration
Real integrity means an answer. It doesn’t just mean – it doesn’t mean riding the anger. And this is very difficult to do.
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Integrity Mean Real Ride
The big issue of our time is trying to deal with extremism based on a perversion of religion and how you get peaceful coexistence between people of different faiths and cultures.
TONY BLAIR

Issues Peaceful People
We are going to expand enormously — our economy, our consumption, over the years to come … But the consequences of that on emissions are going to be severe unless we change direction.
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Consumption Economy Years

Now you may do it badly, you may do it well, some people like you, some people hate you, all the rest of it – but you have got a real motivating life purpose. [on being Prime Minister

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